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11/05/2016 11:27 AM

How is it possible to adjust the power factor of an AC Generator that is operating in parallel with other generators?

What is meant by the term “hunting’ as applied to generator operation?

What is meant by Generator Regulation? What factors affect generator regulation?

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11/05/2016 11:32 AM
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11/05/2016 11:17 PM

That's awfully nice of you to provide a download in easy to understand material for education :)

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11/05/2016 12:38 PM

Adjust it's excitation power. too much power factor drifts postive too low it goes too far negative just as it does in a synchronous motor application.

The rest is easy to find on online searching.

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11/05/2016 2:05 PM

A1) Easy. Turn it off.

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11/05/2016 2:24 PM

What do you understand about generators?

We will help people who put in the effort to understand. You have yet(?) to show us any effort.

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11/05/2016 11:06 PM

Agree with you

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11/06/2016 12:24 AM

this is homework or a college project is it not?

We don't do homework or projects anymore, we did ours, and when we did it, we had no internet to help us!
As you have been extremely clever in finding CR4 using the internet to search, apply that same cleverness and search for your basic answers to your questions.

Now.. once you've found those answers, and you are not sure what they mean, THEN come back with questions on the explanation you have found.

You might get an answer.

But I'm dammed if I'm doing the work for you!

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11/07/2016 6:24 AM

Generally, two ways

  1. Adjust the governor set-point to change the the part of the LOAD active power [kW] taken by adjusted generator. Not all generators have a governor.
  2. Adjust the voltage regulator set-point to change the reactive power [kVAr] output by the generator. This can result in wasteful circulation of reactive power into other generators, that is the adjusted generator outputs more reactive power than the load takes - by forcing other generators to deliver compensating reactive power. Some generators are required to operate at a certain power factor or reactive power on-load, so do not have a functioning voltage regulator.
  3. These two ways work by taking from/adding kW or kVAr to the other generators, noting the kW possible is constrained by the load (and its frequency limits).

This link may help (750 page .pdf) - I just searched net for "Dictionary of Electrical Engineering terms"

ee.sharif.edu/~lcsl/useful/Electrical%20Engineering%20Dictionary.pdf

Generator regulation is affected by...

  1. The inherent regulation of the generator itself at fixed rotor current or field strength.
  2. The effectiveness of its "voltage regulator" system, commonly called AVR (automatic voltage regulator) - although it usually has current inputs as well as voltage and can do power factor or reactive power control in place of voltage control.
  3. The rotor current which can be got without overheating rotor or rotor exciter and/or exciter voltage/current capacity.
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